"book dumping" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1993 Bernth Lindfors, \"Desert Gold: Irrigation Scemes for Ending the Book Drought,\" in D. Riemenschneider and F. Shultze-Engler, eds. African Literatures in the Eighties, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1993. p. 36",
          "text": "...there is some sensitivity in Africa to being the recipient of the West's unwanted or secondhand surplus goods, and sometimes well-intentioned gifts of educational materials have been criticized by their recipients as examples of \"book dumping\" - equivalent, that is, to garbage disposal or to the removal to Africa of European and American toxic wastes."
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          "text": "2003 Donna Nixon, \"From North Carolina to KwaZulu Natal: World Library Partnership,\" North Carolina Libraries, Winter 2003, pp. 146-151.\nMany book donation programs, though well-intentioned, engage in “book dumping,” a practice of shipping old used books that burden rather than assist communities."
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          "ref": "2015 Elizabeth Giles, \"Evaluating Lubuto Library Collections: A Case Study in Dynamic and Strategic Children’s Collection Development,\" IFLA WLIC 2015",
          "text": "... the unfortunate reality for much of the developing world has been that a combination of book dumping, poverty and underfunding of libraries has severely limited the ability of librarians to collect relevant, high-quality resources (Sturges, 2014; Edem, 2010; Otike, 1993)."
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        "The practice of donating old used books that burden rather than assist communities."
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        "(idiomatic) The practice of donating old used books that burden rather than assist communities."
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          "ref": "1996 October 14, Nicholson Baker, “The Author vs. the Library”, in The New Yorker, page 50",
          "text": "Since January, the book-dumping has ceased, following an expose by the San Francisco Chronicle.",
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        "The discarding of quantities of books."
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          "ref": "1993 Bernth Lindfors, \"Desert Gold: Irrigation Scemes for Ending the Book Drought,\" in D. Riemenschneider and F. Shultze-Engler, eds. African Literatures in the Eighties, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1993. p. 36",
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